Supporting Mark Lanegan at Manchester Academy a few years back, with Josh Homme and Nick Oliveri in the band. Last I heard of Goss he was on deaths door (this was a while back), so doubt he'll be touring these shores again. And with the added bonus of Nick and Josh playing together just before Nick got kicked out of QOTSA, it for a very special night in retrospect.

I don't know why I didn't just consult wiki earlier. He hasn't toured much since the illness though, and I still doubt he'll do a full UK tour like that again though. The attendances at the 2004 tour were pretty poor, sadly. I hope I'm wrong.

for scope - Green Day at the King's College Student Union has to be my ultimate gig experience. They debuted tracks from 'Warning' and there were only about 150 people in there. and, in Camden 2 weeks later, I found the set on bootleg - bonus!

I saw InMe at the Camden Palace for £3 just after the release of "Underdose"

Most surprising was seeing Wednesday 13 at the Mean Fiddler but seeing Engerica as the support. Never heard of them, watched them and loved them. They made my night.

Rare gig with the five-piece line-up, which lasted all of about an hour...

Sleater-Kinney, Koko 2005
Me and my mates got lucky and got one of the boxes. It meant I had to duck to see Corin without a speaker getting in the way, but the show was incredible: songs from their whole career given the Woods treatment.

Ride, supported by Mercury Rev
Dinosaur Jr
Public Enemy when they were good
All Birmingham Hummingbird 89/90
Happy Mondays Pills n Thrills Tour
Nirvana at Reading 92
Spiritualized at Phoenix with Dr John, Gospel Choir, etc. 97?
Blur at Cambridge Corn Exchange (96? 'Blur' album launch)
The Magic Band at Bristol Fleece, 2005
and Pavements last gig, too - there must be most of that audience on this board

@ reading festival, rage against the machine (1996 and 2000), smashing pumpkins (siamese dream tour), at the drive in @ manchester roadhouse (that venue is TINY), trail of dead 1999/2000 (saw them 4 times within a year) ,atari teenage riot @ night and day cafe in manchester and prob some more i cant think of right now : )

Galaxie 500 and Luna
Heavenly - the year before Mathew Fletcher killed himself.
Astrid (when playing in a church hall, playing with Camera Obscura and Stevie Jackson.
Various early Belle & Sebastian concerts, especially the one in the Mitchell Library.
Blueboy - the singer Keith Girdler lost his battle against cancer a couple of month ago.
Stereolab concerts while Mary Hansen was still alive.
Seeeing Blur in a first of four bands support slot, after Leisure came out.
Stephen Duffy (just as the Lilac Time split up for the first time) doing a solo accoustic set to about 5 of us at lunchtime in Strathclyde Uni Union.

before dave died.
gybe running around scala hitting things with sticks.
japanther and dd/mm/yyyy in a record shop.
animal collective before sung tongs came out.
franz ferdinand in front of not many people was kind of weird.

who became Teenage Fanclub
The White Stripes, 2001, King Tuts, first 2001 tour, when they came back that year the hype had really kicked in and it was bigger venues
Love, King Tuts
Ian Dury And The Blockheads
Nation Of Ulysses
Fugazi, first Glasgow gig, I think
Link Wray
Silverfish
Delgados, although last time I saw them was a bit fraught due to, erm, crowd trouble ;)
Portishead 1997
Sleater Kinney

etcetc, lost all my gig tickets/flyers pre 1992 though, nine years of gigs I have to rely on a dodgy memory for